Working past seventy. Longer lives, thin savings, and labour shortages keep the old at work; the retirement age drifts up by policy and by necessity.
Scaling Compounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data. Largest effect expected 2025–2045.
Second-order effects
Age-discrimination law gets teeth; phased retirement becomes the norm; Social Security claiming shifts later; the young wait longer for promotion and housing.
Its neighbourhood
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
- Skills age and employers prefer the young
- Who are you when the job title goes
- Will the money last as long as the life
- Money must arrive every month without a job
- Still working while parents decline and grandchildren arrive
- Cooking for two again, with less appetite and new restrictions
- Eating becomes a medical decision
Solutions it accelerates
Solutions it threatens
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
If this trend is real, these are the numbers that will show it first.